Homeschooling and Homelessness
Last year, as I wrote about our (ie., MY š
) ambitions for a trilingual education, our family was actually homeless. Now, homelessness isn't always the picture of a single individual with a shopping cart, or begging at an intersection. Over 30% of the homeless are families, according to US statistics. Most of these families are pretty well hidden. They may be living in housing with other families, in a shelter, or in a cheap hotel like we were. Both my husband and I were still working; we just didn't have a place to live because we were pushed out so the landlord could upgrade and jack up the rent. In the middle of that, we tried to keep up a homeschool routine - it was the only thing normal at the time. We spent a lot of time out of the hotel room though, because it was not a great environment. One night, we stayed in a borrowed tent on a friend's land because the hotel was booked that night. We looked at it as a camping trip. A very high-tech camping trip because my frie
